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The Moscow meeting was the launch of negotiations between the two countries, whose border has been closed since 1993.

The Russia-led security bloc will be sending peacekeeping forces, the first time in its history that its collective security provision has been exercised.

Yerevan and Ankara are now trying to rebuild ties, and in any case the ban didn’t work out economically for Armenia, officials said.

Our regional editors offer their informed predictions for the year ahead.

The International Court of Justice declined, however, to order more concrete measures related to Armenian prisoners and maps of land mines in Azerbaijan.

The deal was presented by both Baku and Tehran as proof that their recent political crisis had been overcome.

There was much to discuss just over a year after the end of the war, including ongoing border tensions, plans to reopen borders and transportation, and the fate of Armenian prisoners.

The unfinished structure was the result of a brief period of direct Roman control over Armenia in the second century CE.

The dispute over where the former Georgian president should be treated became sharper as he briefly lost consciousness as a result of his hunger strike.

The recent fighting is a challenge to Moscow’s role as a peacemaker. But Russia may not have many options.

At least 15 Armenian soldiers, and an unknown number of Azerbaijanis, have been killed in the worst fighting since last year's war.

Azerbaijan has stepped up its blockade of key Armenian roads and the two sides have repeatedly exchanged fire amid reported diplomatic progress.

The former Georgian president’s apparently weakening health has risen to the top of the opposition’s agenda, overshadowing recent contested elections.

The opposition says the results were “totally rigged” and that it was taking its fight to the streets with a series of demonstrations.

The visit comes amid a rocky patch in relations between the two allies, and in the middle of a heated election campaign.

The two foreign ministers also discussed how to resolve transportation issues that have become complicated by the new post-war order in southern Armenia.

The most explosive claim of Tehran’s “treachery”: that Iranian forces briefly invaded Azerbaijan during last year’s war.

Both sides are engaging in tit-for-tat retaliations, and Azerbaijanis are fighting back in the face of Iranian rhetorical aggression.

There is still no clear explanation for the unprecedented chest-thumping.

The exercises took place at a time of heightened Baku-Moscow tension.

Both sides have suggested they are ready to sit at the table. But they both have set preconditions unacceptable to the other.

The key to resolving the crisis likely lies in Moscow rather than in Yerevan or Baku.

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